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		<title>Perry orders mental health cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with a large deficit, Texas state leaders have proposed to eliminate $134 million this week from its mental health programs. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) recently sent out a proposal with budget cuts ordered by Gov. Perry and other state leaders, cutting its current budget by 15 percent. While there may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks does the right thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, an enormous set of over 76,000 military reports from the war in Afghanistan, a collection called the Afghan War Diary, became available to the public online via wikileaks.org. The reports detail U.S. military events, both small and large, from the start of the war in 2004 to December 2009. Fifteen thousand more reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As companies gripe, music industry destroys itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you being spoon-fed music? Even if you don’t only buy music you hear on the radio, your musical taste may be more influenced by the media than you realize. A recent article on arstechnica.com talks about payola, a process in which labels pay radio stations to promote certain songs. Nate Anderson warns readers about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP melting away</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Daily Cougar</dc:creator>
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		<title>BP did not learn from its mistakes</title>
		<link>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/21/bp-did-not-learn-from-its-mistakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Daily Cougar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three months, 13 human lives, millions of barrels of oil, one public relations disaster and immeasurable environmental damage later, BP shows no signs of having learned its lesson. As a business, BP’s first priority has always been making money, and its behavior this weekend clearly demonstrated that it still views other issues with financial motivation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims deserve religious rights</title>
		<link>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/21/muslims-deserve-religious-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Daily Cougar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout this year there have been many attacks on Muslims and their faith. On May 26, the conservative talk show host Michael Berry made remarks that should have had criminal consequences. His on-air outburst was so clearly ignorant that it defies rational thinking. “I’ll tell you this — I hope somebody blows it up,” Berry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper offers more than just grades and headlines</title>
		<link>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/21/paper-offers-more-than-just-grades-and-headlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Daily Cougar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Fall 2010 semester continues to get closer and closer, we suggest UH students – incoming freshmen and super seniors alike – get involved on-campus, and there’s no better place to do that than at The Daily Cougar. Students can learn a lot if they are involved in our publication, and you don’t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where NASA&#8217;s funding goes</title>
		<link>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/21/where-nasas-funding-goes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Houston needs to be bike friendly</title>
		<link>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/14/houston-needs-to-be-bike-friendly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Daily Cougar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston has an enormous amount of people who use the roads to express their need for speed, their hunger for adrenaline, a desire to sightsee and explore, and for health benefits. These people are not the idiotic drivers that cause wrecks and delays on the interstates; I’m talking about the Houstonians who belong to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevada faces fierce election battle</title>
		<link>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/14/nevada-faces-fierce-election-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://thedailycougar.com/2010/07/14/nevada-faces-fierce-election-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Daily Cougar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevada is in a bad place right now. The Silver State leads the nation with its 14 percent unemployment rate, and the local economy shows no signs of bouncing back. The view from Las Vegas, the state’s largest city (and my home) is grim. It is nearly impossible to find a family or business that [...]]]></description>
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